Sick

Noah was home sick on Monday.  :(  He's missed 2 of the last 7 days of school.  He seems fine for a day and then it's back again with a vengeance the next morning.  Poor guy.  Actually, our whole family has taken turns being pitiful piles on the couch lately.

This is one time that I wish the boys weren't so affectionate with one another.  Mason's bottom lip started quivering when I told him he needed to hold off on kissing Emmitt for a few days . . . a tricky thing to enforce when Emmitt is all about the kisses right now.

Is it just me or has this been a crazy sick season?  Our house has been hit hard this winter--definitely worse than most years. I feel like I take a lot of measures to keep our family healthy, but man--what goes around goes around goes around comes all the way back around.  The boys know the drill . . . we wash our hands first thing after being out and about (especially after school), LOTS of shopping cart disinfecting, Germ-X doling out and vitamin taking on a regular basis.  I suppose having our two oldest boys in school for a good portion of the week makes us more exposed this year.  I cringe at the thought of all the nose pickers, snot sleeve wipers, bad aimers and no hand washers.  And then with all of the pencil swapping and doorknob hopping--ugh.  Grossness abounds. 

True Story:

A boy I had a mad crush on from 1st grade through 5th grade lost all of my attention after I watched him repeatedly pull a pick-scoop-dip-wipe in the back of social studies.  His signature move consisted of an open book as cover so he could do a little gold digging, followed up with a casual (yet blatantly obvious) tip of his chair to WIPE IT ON THE FLOOR next to his desk.  Every. Single. Day.  Ew ew ew.  That's just naaasty.  Moral of the story: more hours at school = more germs following my guys home.  Bleh.  So when it's not tissues and sore throats, then it's potty runs and middle of the night "clean up on aisle floor"--on and off . . . annnnnnnd back on again since Christmas.  Needless to say, I think we're more than ready for Old Man Winter to move along.  And maybe I need to do a little refresher course on why the boys should be utilizing those little color coordinated clip-on hand sanitizers and antibacterial wipes I send off to school with them (if you're OCD and you know it, wash your hands).  If they're not the nose pickin' kiddos, then by golly they're going to be the freakishly clean kids in class.